League of Legends: Official Thread

bluemax · 2011-09-01T15:46:38.000Z

Hugin:

So, I like Leona, but it feels like it really takes a while for her to get into gear.

Does anyone have any opinions on Nocturne?

Atmogs-TriForce jungle Nocturne is beastly.

idrisz:

Solo lane nocturne, leave the jungle to shittier laners.

Jungle Nocturne and leave the laning to shittier gankers.

Also since we’re all bitching here is mine for the day: Played a RANKED game today with a Nasus who didn’t know that you can farm up Q. He took solo top and lost to Amumu.

The universe evened out because in the next game the opponents Annie dced and never came back and we won in 20 minutes.

Oh, and was anyone else playing last night when the servers blew up? It was weird seeing everyone DC at the same time.

inactive_user · 2011-09-01T16:15:50.000Z

Is it possible to lose a lane as Alistar with a competent partner? I’m starting to doubt it. Then again, I’m probably playing against a string of newbs who have no idea that the Q-W combo is coming.

Hint: The Q-W combo is always coming.

fire · 2011-09-01T17:15:15.000Z

I’ve been playing Tristana (from the free “Like us on Facebook” promotion), and man! She is fun! I think I still prefer Skarner (I like being in the middle of a fight) but Tristana’s rocket-jumping is great. I love her avatar, I love her voice, I love her skills, and I love that I can finish as well as assist.

Cougar · 2011-09-01T17:46:42.000Z

The US Servers just died.

Yay for prime time.

~C~

idrisz · 2011-09-01T18:01:20.000Z

you don’t need build late game nocturne with atmas/trinity/warmog, just get ghost blade, and you can basically win the game almost single-handily if you get a solo lane.

spence · 2011-09-01T19:02:59.000Z

Cougar:

The US Servers just died.

Yay for prime time.

~C~

Yeah I wanted to hop on for a quick game or too…
30min queue.

Horrible_Oscar · 2011-09-01T19:52:19.000Z

I just stole a baron by accident with Lux’s ult. Hey, they’re all there, I should shoot them. Oh, sweet!

Hanacker · 2011-09-01T20:03:30.000Z

fire:

I’ve been playing Tristana (from the free “Like us on Facebook” promotion), and man! She is fun! I think I still prefer Skarner (I like being in the middle of a fight) but Tristana’s rocket-jumping is great. I love her avatar, I love her voice, I love her skills, and I love that I can finish as well as assist.

Yes! More members for the Tristana fan club!

Hugin · 2011-09-01T22:39:14.000Z

Did a match tonight playing Tristana. We lost, but it was a 4 on 5, one of our guys disconnected early on. Considering the mismatched sides we did decently, but eventually they overwhelmed us.

Calistas · 2011-09-01T23:08:11.000Z

Trist is fun, but there are better ranged AD carries, Caitlyn springs to mind, but there are others. Even post-nurf Corki is probably still more useful.

That being said: yes, she is fun :)

Hugin · 2011-09-01T23:13:14.000Z

Calistas:

Trist is fun, but there are better ranged AD carries, Caitlyn springs to mind, but there are others. Even post-nurf Corki is probably still more useful.

That being said: yes, she is fun :)

Can’t afford Caitlyn yet. I happened to start playing a week she was a free character. I like her a lot, but Tristana feels a little more aggressive to me.

Hanacker · 2011-09-01T23:20:18.000Z

Hugin:

Can’t afford Caitlyn yet. I happened to start playing a week she was a free character. I like her a lot, but Tristana feels a little more aggressive to me.

I’d think the opposite. Caitlyn can harass with her long range thing, while Tristana needs to get in close for explosive shot and auto attacks until she gets some range from her passive. Although if you have managed to chip away on someone, there’s nothing like rocket jumping onto their face.

Hugin · 2011-09-02T01:29:54.000Z

Hanacker:

I’d think the opposite. Caitlyn can harass with her long range thing, while Tristana needs to get in close for explosive shot and auto attacks until she gets some range from her passive. Although if you have managed to chip away on someone, there’s nothing like rocket jumping onto their face.

That’s what I mean by Tristana feeling more aggressive. You can rocket jump into a fight (often what I’ll do instead it rocket jump slightly behind someone, then faceblast them back, deeper towards (our turret/an ally/farther away from home). It just feels like a somewhat closer/brawlier fight.

I like Caitlyn a lot, but with the bear trap thingies and the longer range, she feels a little more remote from the battle.

chequers · 2011-09-02T02:43:09.000Z

So I have a house and I’ll be playing again in three weeks bitchezz!

Calistas · 2011-09-02T04:40:37.000Z

Yay! Solo queue sucks balls.

SlyFrog · 2011-09-02T07:15:55.000Z

Calistas:

Trist is fun, but there are better ranged AD carries, Caitlyn springs to mind, but there are others. Even post-nurf Corki is probably still more useful.

That being said: yes, she is fun :)

Cait is really annoying - her range just makes her insufferable, and when you add her traps and escape, I think she is the person I least want to face mid.

AaronSofaer · 2011-09-02T09:00:40.000Z

Instalock jungle Taric. Let’s see how he does.

MrCoffee · 2011-09-02T09:02:29.000Z

Is he jungling? because i have seen people taking it “to last hit”

AaronSofaer · 2011-09-02T09:31:18.000Z

Oh, he jungled.

He was completely useless, so was Brand, and Sona took all of the kills in lane (all five of them), leaving me underfarmed and unable to carry as Tristana.

SlyFrog · 2011-09-02T10:24:04.000Z

Let’s talk briefly about one aspect of jungling - the gank by the jungler.

I’ve been trying to be better about swinging over to different lanes to help by ganking even before level six.

But so often I look around and my team has done absolutely no damage to the opposition. Worse, they often have the creeps pushed to the midway point or even up to the opposition’s tower.

Is it unreasonable to basically tell your teammates to do some harassing/poking and actually damage their opponents and then I’ll come gank?

It just seems like a waste of time (and time is both XP and gold) for a jungler to set up to gank someone at the midpoint of a lane when you know they’re just going to run back under their tower with 1/4 of their health missing (because they started at 100%).